Pro-doping event scheduled to take place in Las Vegas
Usada says critics deflecting after 2021 swimming scandal
The war of words between anti-doping bodies over the Enhanced Games has intensified after Usada accused Wada of attempting “to smear America”.
The president of the US Anti-Doping Agency made the claim as he hit back at the World Anti-Doping Agency suggestion that it should do more to stop the pro-doping event scheduled to take place in Las Vegas next year. Travis Tygart said Wada’s intervention was a “desperate attempt to divert attention” from its role in the Chinese swimming scandal of 2021.
“For an organisation reportedly part of a criminal investigation by US law enforcement, the continued and blatantly false attacks from Wada president [Witold] Banka are a telling smoke screen,” Tygart said.
